Beauty Quote by Naomi Wolf

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent…

— Naomi Wolf

“A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience." -Naomi Wolf”

— Stacey M. Rosenfeld

I firmly believe that a big part of the obsession with women's thinness comes from the same place as male power fantasies.

— Tess Holliday

We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.

— Susie Orbach

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes…

— Gloria Steinem

“Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women. According to Appel, cult members develop..."an attitude of moral…

— Naomi Wolf

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain…

— Julie Burchill

A woman’s beauty is supposed to be her grand project and constant insecurity. We’re meant to shellac our lips with five different glosses, but…

— Molly Crabapple

This unrealistic patriarchal standard of beauty? We're not doing that. It's not about what size we are after we've grown a body. It's about…

— Michelle Buteau

“Unfortunately, as women, we are constantly being pressured about being more beautiful, about being thinner, about looking younger, or sexier, or blonder, or more…

— Cameron Diaz The Body Book

The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there.

— Augusten Burroughs

“The proof that the One Stone Solution is political lies in what women feel when they eat 'too much': guilt. Why should guilt be…

— Naomi Wolf